History Recap / StarTrekVoyagerS6E7DragonsTeeth

* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Gedrin is the only Vaadwaur who realizes their plan to reassert their empire is doomed to failure, as they are vastly outnumbered and their technology is 900 years behind the times. When Gaul plans to backstab the ''Voyager'' crew and steal their ship, Gedrin pulls as HeelFaceTurn and helps stop them.

* ZergRush: The Vaadwuar attempt to seize ''Voyager'' with ships 900 years behind the times, but they can mobilize dozens of ships to overwhelm ''Voyager'' through sheer number even though their ships explode in one hit. ''Voyager'' evens the odds by calling up the Turei for an EnemyMine.

%%* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: At least some of the Vaadwaur, somewhat like the Klingons but softer-spoken and nicer.

* PortalNetwork: ''Voyager'' accidentally enters a network of subspace tunnels that will cut down their journey. Unfortunately the aliens who lay claim to the tunnels have no intention of letting anyone else use them.

%%* HeroicSacrifice: Gedrin's sabotage of his own peoples' ships is revealed to be this, as RocksFallEveryoneDies.

* RedepmtionEqualsDeath: Gedrin decides he isn't a BloodKnight like the rest of the Vaadwuar, and with Tuvok's help he sabotages the Vaadwaur's attack at the climax, getting killed in the process.

%%* CrazyPrepared: Whoever built the cryo-stasis vault deep underground.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Gaul's desire for the Vaadwuar to reclaim what they've lost has a minor problem in that the rest of the quadrant has advanced over the last 900 years, leaving the Vaadwuar obsolete. They also claim there are corridors of which the Turei are unaware, despite the latter controlling and exploring them for 900 years.

%%* HumanPopsicle: Gedrin, Jisa and the rest; unfortunately, Jisa and some of the Vaadwaur didn't make it. Gaul wants to make the ''Voyager'' crew into these in the end, though at least it's a step up from executing them.

%%* MustMakeAmends: Gedrin decides he isn't a BloodKnight like the rest of the Vaadwuar, and with Tuvok's help he sabotages the Vaadwaur's attack at the climax.

%%* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: As usual; see UngratefulBastard.

%%* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Some of the Vaadwaur, led by Gaul, get it into their heads to take over ''Voyager'' and do this to all the species that had a hand in destroying them.

%%* ShoutOut: To ''Literature/TheHagakure'' with the walking in the rain comment.

* UngratefulBastard: To wage their war, the contingent of Vaadwaur led by Gaul, who wish to reawaken their warrior nature, are willing to take over ''Voyager''!

* SealedEvilInACan: Seven of Nine releases an alien race from a 900-year stasis only for them to turn out to be your standard VillainOfTheWeek-types.

* SealedEvilInACan: Seven of Nine releases an alien race from a 900-year stasis [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot only for them to turn out to be]] your standard VillainOfTheWeek-types.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Gaul's desire for the Vaadwuar to reclaim what they've lost has a minor problem in that the rest of the quadrant has advanced over the last 900 years, leaving the Vaadwuar obsolete.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Gaul's desire for the Vaadwuar to reclaim what they've lost has a minor problem in that [[RealityEnsues the rest of the quadrant has advanced over the last 900 years]], leaving the Vaadwuar obsolete.

* BittersweetEnding: ''Voyager'' survives, but the conquering Vaadwaur do too, and though their technology is outdated, they're resourceful; [[{{Foreshadowing}} Janeway doubts we've seen the last of them]]... Of course, they're only seen again once, in season 7, but they do make appearances in the [[Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse ExpandedUniverse]] and ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline''.

* SequelHook: At the end of the episode, Tuvok reports that several dozen Vaadwaur ships escaped their planet and made it into the subspace corridors. Somewhat subverted, the Vaadwaur never showed up on ''Voyager'' again, but would become the [[ArcVillain Arc Villains]] for the Delta Rising arc of ''[[Videogame/StarTrekOnline Star Trek Online]]'', set in 2410.

* SequelHook: At the end of the episode, Tuvok reports that several dozen Vaadwaur ships escaped their planet and made it into the subspace corridors. Somewhat subverted, the Vaadwaur never showed up on ''Voyager'' again, but would become the ArcVillain for the Delta Rising arc of [[Videogame/StarTrekOnline]], set in 2410.

%%* MustMakeAmends: Gedrin decides he isn't a BloodKnight like the rest of the Vaadwuar, and with Tuvok's help he sabotages the Vaadwuar's attack at the climax.

* ZegRush: The Vaadwuar attempt to seize ''Voyager'' with ships 900 years behind the times, but they can mobilize dozens of ships to overwhelm ''Voyager'' through sheer number even though their ships explode in one hit. ''Voyager'' evens the odds by calling up the Turei for an EnemyMine.

* CrazyPrepared: Whoever built the cryo-stasis vault deep underground.

* HeroicSacrifice: Gedrin's sabotage of his own peoples' ships is revealed to be this, as RocksFallEveryoneDies.

* HumanPopsicle: Gedrin, Jisa and the rest; unfortunately, Jisa and some of the Vaadwaur didn't make it. Gaul wants to make the ''Voyager'' crew into these in the end, though at least it's a step up from executing them.
* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: Almost; because of their makeup it's hard to distinguish individual Vaadwaur, but Gedrin and Gaul look dissimilar enough to know that the 'older-looking' one would be more set in his peoples' ways as warriors, while the 'younger-looking' one would be more willing to embrace the cultural/science side of his peoples' history.

* KidsAreCruel: Why little Naomi doesn't want to play with the revived Vaadwaur children ([[TheGhost whom we never see]]); they called Neelix names and made fun of the Talaxians.

* LudicrousSpeed: The "underspace corridors" are clearly capable of this, as they allowed contact with Talax (which is 40,000 light years back).
* MustMakeAmends: Gedrin decides he isn't a BloodKnight like the rest of the Vaadwuar, and with Tuvok's help he sabotages the Vaadwuar's attack at the climax.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: As usual; see UngratefulBastard.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: At least some of the Vaadwaur, somewhat like the Klingons but softer-spoken and nicer.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Gedrin and the survivors of the bombing are almost 900, actually, after being thawed out.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Some of the Vaadwaur, led by Gaul, get it into their heads to take over ''Voyager'' and do this to all the species that had a hand in destroying them.
* SealedEvilInACan: [[NeverTrustATrailer Well supposedly.]] Seven of Nine releases an alien race from a 900-year stasis [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot only for them to turn out to be]] your standard VillainOfTheWeek-types piloting obsolete spaceships rather than some terrible EldritchAbomination.
* ShoutOut: To ''Literature/TheHagakure'' with the walking in the rain comment.
* TitleDrop: Chakotay, when he sees the Vaadwaur fleet. He compares them to a Greek myth about a slain dragon whose teeth became warriors and continued fighting.

* WhatTheHellHero: Seven gets this from Janeway, twice, as Seven was the one who broke protocol and woke up Gedrin to begin with. Janeway admits that it was born of compassion and that she might have done the same in her position... but that doesn't make it right.

* TheAtoner: Seven shows shades of this--after helping to assimilate others, [[CharacterDevelopment she enjoys helping to rebuild the Vaadwaur, and even tells Janeway as such at the end of the episode.]] Maybe that's why Janeway ultimately doesn't come down on her too hard.

* BittersweetEnding: ''Voyager'' survives, but the conquering Vaadwaur do too, and though their technology is outdated, they're resourceful; [[{{Foreshadowing}} Janeway doubts we've seen the last of them]]...
** Of course, they're only seen again once, in season 7, but they do make appearances in the [[Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse ExpandedUniverse]] and ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline''.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Chakotay compares the sleeping Vaadwuar soldiers to the [[TitleDrop dragon teeth]] sown by Cadmus in ancient Greek myth, which rose up and became soldiers. Chakotay doesn't finish the story, but if you know how it ends you have some clue how this is going to end for ''Voyager''.

* [[HumanPopsicle Human/Vaadwuar Popsicle]]: Gedrin, Jisa and the rest; unfortunately, Jisa and some of the Vaadwaur didn't make it...
** Gaul wants to make the ''Voyager'' crew into these in the end!

* WhatTheHellHero: Seven gets this from Janeway, twice, as Seven was the one who broke protocol and woke up Gedrin to begin with. Janeway admits that it was born of compassion and that she might have done the same in her position..... but that doesn't make it right.

--> '''Janeway:''' ''(to the Vaadwaur)'' I'm going to leave this planet in one hour, with or without you.

* AfterTheEnd: Voyager sets down on the planet after the holocaust.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Chakotay compares the sleeping Vaadwuar soldiers to the [[TitleDrop dragon teeth]] sown by Cadmus in ancient Greek myth, which rose up and became soldiers. Chakotay doesn't finish the story, but if you know how it ends you have some clue how this is going to end for Voyager.

* LetsYouAndHimFight: Voyager contacts the Turei to fight the Vaadwaur.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Voyager's attempts to help the Vaadwuar sets off a potential regional conflict.

* PortalNetwork: Voyager accidentally enters a network of subspace tunnels that will cut down their journey. Unfortunately the aliens who lay claim to the tunnels have no intention of letting anyone else use them.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Some of the Vaadwaur, led by Gaul, get it into their heads to take over Voyager and do this to all the species that had a hand in destroying them.